Seen as he's followed the darts format fairly closely, I wouldn't be surprised if Bazza implements a rolling fund for maximums, say £500 added every event til one comes along. This is what happens with 9-darters in the PDC, which nowadays are perhaps more commonplace than 147s.

£100 entry for each event .u either need a sponsor or are part time . its a situation where skint pros will have to enter to take on crap amateurs who have a sponsor just because the kid made a 100 break. these events will be short lived .its blackpool 30 tables all over again. hendry and the like wont enter these until they are forced into it by some lower ranker who can only catch him in the rankings cus they can only play without the tv and the pressure of an audience.its biased towards people who cant cut it when it really matters.

9 darters at major PDC events are now far more common than 147s in snooker. However, if you remove Phil Taylor from the equation, they probably occur roughly as often as 147s.Well done to Kurt Maflin, an incredible achievement in what is turning out to be a brilliant year for him following a terrible start.David- would you be kind enough to add us to your links? We say nice things about Snooker Scene often enough! Thanks!

Global Snooker has regular updates when not falling asleep over the laptop - it's going to be another 3am night I think.But hey I've put in 36 hours in two days, maybe I can take the rest of the week off!It's extremely annoying not being able to get in to see anything of the matches. Even when the lads are on a potential 147 you can't nip in to watch.There's been quite a lot of very disappointed fans turn up who had no idea it was going to be so restricted.There have been some very good matches.Jimmy Michie and Matthew Stevens both full of praise for Igor Figueiredo. His potting is frightening and as Matthew said when he learns more about the matchplay and shot selection, he's going to be a real handful for even top players.Kyren Wilson has also impressed people who've seen his talent for the first time here.I had a feeling McGill was going to beat McManus tonight and that's like a Scottish handover of the old to the new generation.

Well done to the 'shotgun.' He finally has ousted the 'rocket' 4-0. First time he's beaten him?

I think Cope will do well in this format? He can't 'Cope' with the longer formed formats - one good Grand Prix run in 06 - but he is so dangerous at the best of 7s and even best of 9s as Maguire found out in Glasgow. Wish him and think he'll get close to winning this tonight.

Shame he missed out to a rejuvenated Mark Williams. But the points will definitely help in the 'Race To...'rankings.

Well done on Stephen Maguire on making the final. Deserves it as well. Seem to remember when the WSA was losing their grip on the running of the game - they had this idea last year of having them tournaments that offered nothing but a few quid to the players.

Think the first tournament had a good turn out from outside the top 16 and one top 16 turned up and won it - Maguire. Good on him!

BTW - Love the format. maybe next time start the qualifiers on the Wed, for a Thursday start, but most matches were completed on timeand am sure if a poll was done, most players were happy with the new idea...U should poll them.